ICELAND

ICELAND / ÍSLAND.

EUROPA C.E.P.T. Issue.
Kirkjufell from Ófærufoss.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 02.05.1977.
Face value: 85 Icelandic króna.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,500,000 copies.
Size: 26 x 36 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 524.
- Michel No. 523.
- Scott No. 499.
- StampWorld No. 524.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 554.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 476.

Kirkjufell (‘Church Mountain’) is a 463 m (1,519 ft) high mountain on the north coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður, in western Iceland. It belongs to the Lýsuskarð volcanic system. Kirkjufell contains volcanic rock, but is not a volcano. It is a former nunatak, a mountain that protruded above the glaciers surrounding it during the Ice Age, and before that was part of what was once the area's strata. This strata is composed of alternating layers of Pleistocene lava and sandstone, with tuff at its summit.